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Microsoft had stopped supporting Windows 7 from 14th Jan 2020 .  What does that means for you. This means that Microsoft will no longer give you patches/updates for windows 7.  Windows 7 is officially END OF LIFE .   So what are you options now ? 1.  Either you can update to Windows 10 , which will require you to pay for license cost for the operating system and for all the softwares  that you will install on it  OR  2.  You can download and install Linux operating system (which is free to use ) The first option   (upgrading windows 7 with windows 10) will not work good for people who have older hardware i.e. 1GB or 2GB memory with limited amount of harddisk space). In this post i will give you list of  Linux operating systems which you can download along with their system requirement.  Most of Linux Variant are only available on 64bit architectur e  ( Right click on my computer in windows ...

In this guide we show you how to install  Flatpak   on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and above to unlock a world of new and updated software via Flathub. Recent versions of Ubuntu come with support for  Snap apps  out of the box — but Snaps aren’t the only universal package format on the scene. Regular readers will have noticed an uptick in the number of Flatpak apps we mention on these very pages. Indeed, it was a reader who asked if I could put together a step-by-step guide on how to install Flatpak in Ubuntu, how to set up the Flathub repo, and how to install Flatpak apps. The official Flatpak website has a great setup guide covering multiple distributions. The guide that follows is adapted from that, but with added screenshots, background details, and tips. What is Flatpak? Spotify is available as a Flatpak app Flatpak  is a ‘next-generation’ Linux app format developed by Red Hat and used in Fedora. It’s similar to Snappy in many ways: apps are sandboxed; c...